I am fascinated by your antihaiku, Paul. Such a stunning image you have created. Can you tell me a bit about the philosophy and form of your antihaiku?Hi, Brad. Thanks. Antihaiku have no rules of course but the general idea is that they move the reader from one place to another, unlike haiku which emphasise stillness. Like haiku they tend to use fairly simple language and have a respect for structure. Unlike haiku they often have an edge, like social commentary or a personal edge, an antihaiku usually expresses discontent which is why they are about movement, energy, action and change. I have been writing them for a while now but noone else has had a go. I look forward to reading the first piece tagged antihaiku by someoneelse, that will be a blast.

Ah, poetic passion gazing into the belly of repulsive death to find precious diamonds. No?Yes, but also the idea in the recurring couplet, that the prize goes to those who do not think who simply react instinctively and wild or somethingorother, hello, Gloria,

The podcast opens this up into 3d, literally. Your voice is perfect for such intensity. There is a lot of rhyme – more than I think I have ever read from you – but it suits the feeling of expectation. I can’t shake that this is like a voiceover intro to a film – camera pans inside a cave, comes to rest on the skeleton and then circles it, before disappearing inside the crevice to find the jewel.Thankyou, Mary P., I should see if I can talk to Peter about including it in his fillum,

i think this is lovely. i love the way the ending circles back to the beginning.Thankyou, Lissa. It doesn’t end up quite where it began, the punctuation changes from a question mark to a fullstop so the couplet changes from a question to a statement. There is the movement from one place to another which will come to characterise the antihaiku.
And you’re back, yayayay hello, Lissa!

just before i read this, I was here:http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/
looking at “one lovely drawing, part 21” art found in a cave of a man, 20000 yrs ago killing a woolly mammoth. anyway, it kind of went with the corpse thing and the transaction. even though you probably werent being literal there. very cool, i hope you see lotss of “antihaiku” tags from here on out, springing up all over google!That is a cool site. I doubt antihaiku will be springing up everywhere. People rarely do what I want them too, thank goodness. Imagine what a world it would be if they did. Chaos! woohooo,

but those gains are political and spent on the now in deferance to the long termThat is thought provoking comment and I think you could be right. Storage of the surplus might be come an issue, thanks Ozy,

I’m Jesús Ge, a spanish poet. I was working about the concept of Antihaiku in another way two years ago. My Antihaiku conserve the traditional metric form, and no metaphors condition, but it looks in death, unjustice, or pain situations of our actual world.

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“The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.”
Italo Calvino.

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